• 대한인간공학회지
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• 제35권3호
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• pp.175-184
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• 2016

Objective: In this study, two types of foot-controlled mouse devices are compared with a hand mouse in the input tasks requiring repetitively switching between a keyboard and a mouse. Background: Foot-controlled mouse devices have been developed for persons with impairments in the mobility of their hands. However, some researchers insisted that the foot-controlled mouse devices could be effectively used by the persons with no limits to their hand mobility. There are needs to investigate the efficiency of the foot-controlled mouse devices, when they are used by the nondisabled people. Method: Participants conducted the input tasks, requiring repetitive switches between a keyboard and a computer mouse. The used computer mouse devices were two types of foot-controlled mouse and a typical hand mouse. Participants performed three types of input task for five days and three types of task performance were measured; the number of completed input tasks within a given practice time, subjective satisfaction level and the time wasted for the mouse control. Results: For five days, the performance of input tasks sharply increased in input tasks by foot-controlled mouse devices rather than a hand mouse. After five days, the level of satisfaction on the foot-controlled mouse devices approached to about 76% of a hand mouse satisfaction level. The control time of the foot-controlled mouse devices also approached to about 109% of a hand mouse control time. Conclusion: After only five-day practice, the input task performance by foot-controlled mouse devices approached to that of a hand mouse. This result may suggest that the foot-controlled mouse devices can be effectively used as an alternative input device for the nondisabled people, if input tasks are easy and enough practice time is provided. Application: The results of this study might help to design foot-controlled mouse devices and to expend the usage of them.

• 통상정보연구
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• 제9권2호
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• pp.423-439
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• 2007

The purpose of this study was to analyze market competitiveness of Korean and Chinese computer parts industry in the between two countries' market by using Index of Export Bias and Market Comparative Advantage Index. For attaining the purpose of study, we classified the computer parts which exported to the two countries' market and the imported products as the memory devices and input/output peripheral devices. Analyzing period was 2001-2006. The analysis of Korean results of Index of Export Bias indicated that memory devices represented low overall numerical value and the Chinese results of Index of Export Bias indicated that memory devices represented high gradual numerical value. On the other hand, Korean input/output peripheral devices have been increasing steadily for analysis period and China input/output peripheral devices have been decreasing steadily for analysis period. Additional results indicated that the Korean and China computer parts which gained market competitiveness between two countries market were as follows. Korean memory devices have been losing competitiveness in the China market steadily and Chinese memory devices have been acquire competitiveness in the Korean market gradually. In input/output peripheral devices case, Korean products represented powerful competitiveness in the China market and Chinese products have been gaining competitiveness in the Korea market.

• 한국게임학회 논문지
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• 제10권1호
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• pp.35-45
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• 2010

이 연구는 게임 안의 상황을 통제하는 조작 방법 중 실생활에서의 행위 경험과 유사한 조작도구를 사용하는 것이 몰입을 더욱 증가시킬 것이라는 가설을 세우고, 범용 조작도구와 전용 조작도구의 비교 실험을 통해 결과를 밝히고자 하였다. 이에 따라 게임 조작행위와 몰입간의 관계를 파악하여 연구의 과정을 도출하고 가설을 증명하였다. 연구결과 대부분의 플레이어들은 점수 결과에 상관없이 전용 조작도구를 사용하였을 때, 게임에 빠져들어 있었음을 느꼈고 만족도가 높았으며, 전용 조작도구의 사용이 몰입의 증가에 전체적으로 긍정적인 영향을 미쳤다. 대부분의 플레이어들이 도전, 주의집중, 즐거움, 현전 측면에서 전용조작도구가 훨씬 우세하다는 응답 결과를 나타냈고, 조작도구의 숙련과 통제는 두 조작도구가 비슷한 수준에서 선호되고 있는데, 전용 조작도구에서 실험 초반 호기심과 도전감을 강하게 나타냈다. 게임의 조작행위를 통해 몰입을 증가시키기 위해서는 현전감이 높고, 익숙해지기 쉬운 조작법과 정확한 조작이 가능한 조작 도구의 활용이 필요하며 이는 게임의 재미와 몰입을 더욱 증가시킨다는 결론에 이른다.

• International Journal of Advanced Culture Technology
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• 제11권2호
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• pp.298-309
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• 2023

The mouse as an input device has undoubtedly brought convenience to users due to its intuitiveness and simplicity, but it also brought unprecedented issues such as carpal tunnel syndrome (CTS). As a result, the necessity of alternative input devices that put less strain on the wrist, while still providing the convenience of a conventional mouse, has emerged. Unfortunately, there have been several research about alternative devices to replace a mouse, however, they showed inconsistent results. This study suggests that those inconsistent results may stem from the type and the difficulty of tasks used in previous studies. Therefore, we designed this study to compare the performance and perceived workload of three input devices (Mouse/Trackball/Touchpad) in each condition in terms of task type (Targeting/Tracking) and difficulty level (Easy/Hard). The results indicated that there were significant performance differences and no significant workload differences among the three devices, and the interactions were observed in some conditions. These results can provide users with practical guidelines to choose the optimal input device according to their needs or purpose.

• 한국인쇄학회지
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• 제25권1호
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• pp.65-80
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• 2007

The input and output device requires precise color representation and CMS (Color Management System) because of the increasing number of ways to apply the digital image into electronic publishing. However, there are slight differences in the device dependent color signal among the input and output devices. Also, because of the non-linear conversion of the input signal value to the output signal value, there are color differences between the original copy and the output copy. It seems necessary for device-dependent color information values to change into device-independent color information values. When creating an original copy through electronic publishing, there should be color management with the input and output devices. From the devices' three phases of calibration, characterization and color conversion, the device-dependent color should undergo a color transformation into a device-independent color. In this paper, an experiment was done where the input device used the linear multiple regression and the sRGB color space to perform a color transformation. The output device used the GOG, GOGO and sRGB for the color transformation. After undergoing a color transformation in the input and output devices, the best results were created when the original target underwent a color transformation by the scanner and digital camera input device by the linear multiple regression, and the LCD output device underwent a color transformation by the GOG model.

• International Journal of Internet, Broadcasting and Communication
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• 제12권2호
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• pp.77-82
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• 2020

IoT devices frequently require input resources to communicate with various sensors or IoT platforms. IoT device wastes a lot of time as idle time or waiting time to check the data of the input resource and use the input resource. In addition, IoT devices use various input resources. We compares and analyzes input idle time and input waiting time generated from hardware serial input resource, software serial input resource, digital port input resource, and analog port input resource using Arduino widely used as IoT device. In order to design the IoT device framework, it is necessary to understand the characteristics of input resources and to design them to minimize unnecessary input idle time and input waiting time. The analog input wait time has a much larger input wait time than the digital input wait time, so it must be designed to receive analog information periodically at the appropriate timing. The characteristics of the input resources analyzed in this way help to design an efficient IoT device.

• 대한인간공학회지
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• 제19권1호
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• pp.49-61
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• 2000

An experiment was designed to evaluate Fitts' law for the three-dimensional virtual pointing task and to compare the three input devices; Spaceball, Spacemouse, and 3D-Mouse. The result showed that Fitts law fitted poorly for the three-dimensional pointing tasks with relatively low coefficients of determinant. Three reasons, high degree-of-freedom, dynamic egocentric viewpoint change, and clutching problem were discussed to explain the poor fitness of Fitts' law. In terms of device comparison, the 3D-Mouse was superior to the other input devices. Also, the stereoscopic display significantly increased the performance. The results of this study can be used for the design of virtual control tasks and the selection of suitable input devices.

• Journal of Information Processing Systems
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• 제10권1호
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• pp.92-102
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• 2014

In recent years, there has been growing interest in secure pairing, which refers to the establishment of a secure communication channel between two mobile devices. There are a number of descriptions of the various types of out-of-band (OOB) channels, through which authentication data can be transferred under a user's control and involvement. However, none have become widely used due to their lack of adaptability to the variety of mobile devices. In this paper, we introduce a new OOB channel, which uses accelerometer-based gesture input. The gesture-based OOB channel is suitable for all kinds of mobile devices, including input/output constraint devices, as the accelerometer is small and incurs only a small computational overhead. We implemented and evaluated the channel using an Apple iPhone handset. The results demonstrate that the channel is viable with completion times and error rates that are comparable with other OOB channels.

• 제어로봇시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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• 제어로봇시스템학회 2003년도 ICCAS
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• pp.1633-1637
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• 2003

Existing input devices for desktop computers are not suitable for wearable computers because they are neither easy to carry nor convenient to use in a mobile working environment. Different input devices for wearable computers must be developed. In this paper, a wireless glove-based input device for wearable computers is proposed. The proposed input device consists of a pair of chording gloves. Its keys are mounted on the fingers and their chording methods are similar to those of a Braille keyboard. RF (Radio Frequency) and IrDA (Infrared Data Association) modules are used to make the proposed input device wireless. Since the Braille representation for numbers and characters is efficient and has been well established for many languages in the world, the proposed input device may be one of good input devices to computers. Furthermore, since the Braille has been used for visually impaired people, the proposed one can be easily used as an input device to computers for them.

• 디자인학연구
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• 제17권3호
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• pp.441-448
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• 2004

유비쿼터스 컴퓨팅 환경이 보급되면서 모바일 기기는 인간과 주변 환경간의 인터페이스 기기로서, 사용자와 정보를 주고받는 휴대용 단말의 역할을 할 것으로 예상된다. 모바일 기기에서 정보 검색을 위해서는 네비게이션 외에 특정의 문자열을 포함하는 정보를 입력할 수 있어야 하므로, 제한된 크기와 면적 내에서 효율적인 문자입력 방식을 선택해야 한다. 기존 의 펜입력, 숫자 키패드에 의한 문자 조합 등의 입력방식은 사용자에게 불편을 주고 있다. 본 연구는 모바일 기기에서의 문자 입력을 위해 영상입력을 통한 가상키보드 방식을 제안하고자 하며, 기존 방법과의 비교를 통해 유효성을 검증하고자 한다. 이를 위해 영상입력을 통해 커서를 조작하는 가상 키보드 프로토타입을 제작하고 기존의 문자입력 방식과 비교하여 새로운 인터랙션 방법으로서의 적용 가능성을 검토한다. 본 연구에서 제시하는 방법은 휴대폰이나 PDA와 같은 소형 모바일 기기의 내장 카메라를 이용하여 문자 입력을 하기 위한 대안적 방법으로 활용이 가능하며, 문자 입력을 위한 하드웨어 부분을 제거함으로써 기존 제품보다 소형의 디자인이 가능할 것으로 기대된다. 한편, 영상입력을 통한 커서의 조작 방식은 컨텐츠에서의 네비게이션에도 적용할 수 있을 것으로 본다.